Interferon Gamma Release Assays (Quantiferon Gold)

There are TB kits that contain three special tubes individually wrapped in a small biohazard bag. If you can't find one in the Labs TS room or the clinic, go to IMA Saturday clinic next door and ask the IMA Labs nurse for the tubes if they have any.

The order in which you fill the tubes is important:

1st: Grey top (NIL).

2nd: Red top (TB antigen)

3rd: Purple top (mitogen)

Draw up 1mL of blood (up to the black mark on the side of the tube -- the tubes seemed to be pressurized to a point that blood stops flowing well once they have reached that level anyway) into each tube.